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Geschiedenis van Jona

Inside the great fish Jonah cries out from his distress, and the Lord speaks so that the fish vomits him onto the dry land (Jonah 2). By the Dutch printmaker Crispijn van de Passe, held in the Rijksmuseum.

Geschiedenis van Jona by Crispijn van de Passe depicting Jonah 2
View full resolutionPublic domain via Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Object number 3/6.Source

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Portrait of Crispijn van de Passe

About Crispijn van de Passe

1564-1637 · Dutch

Crispijn van de Passe the Elder was a Dutch engraver and founder of a four-generation dynasty of printmakers; his biblical series — including the Liber Genesis and Life of Christ — circulated across Protestant and Catholic Europe alike.